Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] for [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rovertrail has been invented for just that situation ( and many others , of course . ) |
| 2 | It may be that it 's time to look again , even though this new rule has been enforced for only these elections , at this particular method of positive discrimination . |
| 3 | But old habits die hard , especially those fashioned in the Pontypool front row , and the easy life has been postponed for yet another season . |
| 4 | ‘ Look for balding , bearded men , ’ I nearly said — but he may not have been looking for precisely that variety of technical person . |
| 5 | Squatting in the soil , knees bent double either side of her head , intent on her hands working between her legs , Carolyn could have been taken for only half her age . |
| 6 | The Darkfall storm had been building for quite some time , generating itself , growing stronger . |
| 7 | It had been prepared for quite some time and the brunt of it was against the Serbs , ’ said Col Jovanovic . |
| 8 | Nora had been prepared for almost any response from John , except the one she got — or thought she had got . |
| 9 | The microlight had been flying for nearly half an hour when it crashed into a field . |
| 10 | At one time so many people from the area were hanged at Newgate it had been nicknamed Jack Ketch 's Warren , and according to Paddy it had been known for as many as forty constables to march down with cutlasses to control disturbances . |
| 11 | It was also stated that a ‘ scam ’ had been running for quite some time prior to the defendants ' involvement . |
| 12 | The manuscript on which Ernest Cotchin had been working for so many years was unfinished and unrevised when he died in September 1988 . |
| 13 | Oh it had been going for quite some time , I do n't know really when they would start . |
| 14 | Fleury had no time to draw his final weapon , the two-bladed Indian dagger , for his adversary , it turned out , was no less impressively armed than he was himself and he was already flourishing a spare sabre which he had been carrying for just such an emergency . |
| 15 | New homes have been found for nearly all the animals . |
| 16 | Thunderbirds have been going for over half a century … and with the next generation Its they 're set to continue for another twenty five years Fab . |
| 17 | CRUNCH talks over plans for a Sainsbury supermarket in Darlington have been re-scheduled for later this month . |